Can we all get along?
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.
I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
I tell myself time heals. It really does.
As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.
Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.
For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'
I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
I saw my hometown burning that day.
Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.
Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.
I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.
